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| hodget17 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4661 days ago 3 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi | Message 1 of 3 07 May 2012 at 1:32pm | IP Logged |
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I was wondering if anyone who actually knows something about Pashto could give me an
insight into how similar it is to Urdu? I know that they are two distinct languages, but from what I have read about Pashto it appears that they have a number of grammatical features in common, such as SOV order, gender/case, ergativity etc. Are they similar enough that learning Pashto whilst already speaking Urdu will help considerably? Any enlightenment would be much appreciated. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5169 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes  Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 2 of 3 07 May 2012 at 10:51pm | IP Logged |
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Well, I think Urdu is more Like Indian languages, and Pashtu is more close to Persian and Kurdish, but nevertheless they are still in Indo-Iranian language family, and probably share a great deal of vocabulary in common, thanks to Perso-Arabic influence.
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| Lucky Charms Diglot Senior Member Japan lapacifica.net Joined 6940 days ago 752 posts - 1711 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish | Message 3 of 3 08 May 2012 at 12:03am | IP Logged |
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A little while ago I started a thread asking about the degree of transparency between
Hindi and Persian. The consensus seemed to be that they're not similar enough to be mutually intelligible at all, and any help you might get would be because of the Perso- Arabic loanwords and not because the languages are originally that similar. I would bet the same would be true for Urdu and Pashto. The Pashto language entry on Wikipedia indicates that Pashto has loanwords from "the Arabic, Persian and Hindustani languages". 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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